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Limestone polishing in Phoenix, AZ is one of our many places Prestige Floor and Carpet Care has many customers. We clean, fill holes, polish, and seal limestone the best way in Phoenix, AZ. A lot of cleaning companies do not properly clean and seal limestone in Phoenix, AZ. A topical seal (wax) does not look real on limestone or any other natural stone that can be diamond polished.

Prestige Floor and Carpet Care has been serving Phoenix, AZ for over 23 years. Here is the way we do it

1. Inspect the Limestone for scratches, holes and lippage.

2. Find out what final look the customers want. For example: High Gloss, Medium Gloss, Minimum Gloss or No gloss at all.

3. Test the Limestone and determine if there is any incorrect seal on the floor. There is a lot of Limestone in Phoenix, AZ that has been “waxed” with vinyl seal and this is not healthy for the Limestone and it needs to be removed.

4. If the customer has time and agrees, do a demonstration so the customer can see the process.

These are 4 simple steps we at Prestige Floor and Carpet Care need before scheduling the Limestone polishing in Phoenix, AZ.

Slate is a modest, affordable material that has become popular recently for floors and countertops. Slate’s texture can be left natural and uneven, or it can have a smooth, honed finish.

Despite slate’s durability and resistance to stains, slate can still get scratched and chipped. The experienced natural stone technicians at Prestige Floor and Carpet Care are expert stone restorers and educated in solving any problems you may have with your slate. We can remove any surface damage and offer a variety of slate finishes, such as color enhancing and sealers which can create a satin or wet-look finish. Sealers can also help protect it from scratches and make it easier to clean.

Marble floor polishing in Scottsdale, AZ. We can make your marble floor shine like never before. Prestige Floor and Carpet Care at (602)-620-7881 takes great pride in Polishing marble flooring in Scottsdale, AZ and Paradise Valley

So your marblefloor in Scottsdale, AZ is looking a little hazy and yet it looks so good up against the walls or rooms not used very often. It is time to restore your marble tile and educate on how to keep it looking glossy with proper maintenance. A lot of etched spots in the kitchen and dining room and other rooms where wine, coffee, tomatoes, hair products have been spilled on the marble floor or the wrong natural stone floor cleaning products and they leave a dull spot due to the acidic based products. Well we here at Prestige Floor and Carpet Care inspect your marble floor in Scottsdale, AZ for these etched marks, scratches, lippage and holes. Then perform demonstrations of our diamond honing and polishing process for marble tile.

We take photos of the finished polished marblefloor in Scottsdale, AZ and send them to our customers, so they view them and compare the current conditions to determine when maintenance on your marble floor is needed.

When stripping VCT the wax will come off in layers so the floor may need to be stripped more than once. Before stripping the floor, the area being serviced should be checked for stripper sensitive surfaces. Extra care needs to be used in these areas. Areas that may suffer damage are protected with plastic sheeting and blue delicate surface tape. Everything that can be removed is removed before stripping the floor. Stripper is applied to the floor using a mop and spread over the floor. The floor is completely saturated with a rinse free scrub free stripper. The stripper is given 10-20 minutes to soak in and breakdown the stripper before being scrubbed with a black pad under a 175rpm scrubber. This aggressive pad scrubs away the layers of wax that have been softened by the stripper. This creates a slurry of dissolved wax and stripper. This is pulled into a puddle with a squeegee and scooped up with a dust pan or sucked up with a squeegee vac. This process is repeated a minimum of two times and is repeated until all the wax has been stripped from the floor. Leftover old wax can turn a brownish yellow that looks really ugly under a shiny floor. The only way to correct left over old wax is to completely redo the job.

It definitely pays to strip one time to many rather than one time too few. The hardest and most important part of thorough strip is the edges. Edges tend to build up more wax than the center of the floor because they get less wear and cleaning then the traffic areas. If the edges are not thoroughly scrapped and scrubbed they will leave a nasty yellow brown ring around your clean shiny floor. Again the only way to correct this is to completely re-service this floor. After the floor has been completely stripped of wax from edge to edge the floor is thoroughly cleaned and detailed. Any stubborn areas are scrapped and scrubbed with a maroon stripping pad and then re-cleaned with ammonia and water. When the floor is clean and dry it is ready to coat with wax. Two different types of wax are used when we set up a VCT floor. The first two coats are a water based urethane reinforced floor wax that is very chemical and abrasion resistant. This provides a very tough base coat to protect the vinyl floor. The top four coats of wax are a 25% solids high performance wax. This builds up the layers that will be serviced between stripping and waxing. Putting down multiple thin coats of wax gives a beautiful bright shine. Each thin coat makes the surface smoother and more level which gives that nice bright clean looking shine.

When your tile and grout gets dirty it changes the look in your house and we know how hard it is to clean it, especially in those areas where the most traffic concentrates like the kitchen, bathrooms, entryways, living rooms and hallways.

Let us do the dirty work for you no job is too small or too big for us. Prestige Floor and Carpet Care is now offering in its line of cleaning services professional tile and groutcleaning in Phoenix, AZ. We use the most advanced system to clean your tilefloors without causing any harm to the tile or to you. Our professional trained technicians will do a walk through with the customer to point out areas that need special cleaning.

Then use a special tile and groutcleaning agent to loosen the soil in the grout joint and on the surface of the tile. Then we use special equipment with very hot water to remove the dirt and grime. Then we apply a floor care neutralizer to prepare the grout for sealing. We recommend having the grout sealed with our penetrating sealer. This extra layer of protection seals the grout making it resistant to spills and stains, and easier to clean in the future keeping the grout and the surface looking great longer.

We use a powerful three step deep cleaning process to remove all dirt from your tile and grout. First we do a pre-spray to your tile and grout in Phoenix, AZ with a special formulated cleaning solution to loosen all dirt, hard water deposits and previous cleaning solution residue. After we let the cleaning agent performed its work on the tile and grout, we move to the second step where we use a powerful rotating brush to agitate the cleaning solution on the tile to remove as much dirt embedded on the gout joints and tile crevices. This is a necessary step to get the tile floor as clean as possible.

For the third and last step in the tilecleaning process, we use a high pressurized tile and groutcleaning machine to remove all dirt, cleaning solution from your tile floors, leaving a sparkling, freshly cleantile and grout.

We recommend getting your tile and grout sealed after we deep clean it for a longer lasting clean looking tile and grout. Call Prestige Floor and Carpet Care 602.620.7881 today!

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Your Building Security is Important to Us!

When we clean floors and carpets at Commercial Buildings we always secure the doors with Prop-N-Lock.

Prop-N-Lock is made from 1" think aircraft quality aluminum, anodized for long-life and durability. Manufactured and assembled with high quality hardware, it has 1/8" thick neoprene rubber cushions so the metal never touches any area of the door or frame.

For complete security and safety, no one will be able to enter your building while we work on your floors.